> Nepeta: REUNITE WITH YOUR LUSUS

[bestestfurrend]

[Anyone who spends any time at all with Nepeta should have noticed her absence the past day or so. She'd been just about everywhere hunting for easter eggs for a while, skipping about with two great baskets, one on each arm, and apparently throwing herself completely into this fun new game.

And then she just didn't show up any more.

Until now.]

My Pounce! Look, look everybody! It's my Pounce! She found me again!

[The feed shows a delighted Nepeta and a great white double-mouthed cat purring loudly and nuzzling all over her charge.

Yes, this is indeed why the small kittytroll hasn't been around. She's been busy cuddling her lusus, and has been for a while judging by the white hair covering her hat and coat.]

Oh, oh, this is the best day efur!

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[bestestfurrend]

[Nepeta grins and sticks her tongue out at him.

...quickly followed by a double-lick to the screen from Pounce. You're welcome, Sollux.]

[biifurcatiion]

That ith abtholutely dithguthting. I wath going to bring you juice boxeth but fuck that, I'm not rithking it. I get enough thlobber from TZ.

[bestestfurrend]

Nooooo. Juiceboxes! We want juiceboxes, don't we, Pounce? We purromise not to lick you!

[biifurcatiion]

I don't know, you and TZ have been hanging out a lot, and thhe could never keep a promithe like that. How can I trutht you?

[bestestfurrend]

But I wouldn't break a promise!! Pleaaase?

[biifurcatiion]

- maybe. Only if you thwear a tholemn oath firtht, though.

[bestestfurrend]

I can do that!

[biifurcatiion]

Ok, becauthe I'm gonna make you pinky promithe when I get there, before I will even conthider coming indoorth.

[bestestfurrend]

I will solemnly pinky promise that there will be no licking!

[biifurcatiion]

I guethh if you thwear me thafe conduct I could bring thome over on my way to get thome more.

[He's pretty sure there's no chance he's not going to get licked, but the bullshitting is at least fun, and the best friends are ones who give him plenty of (mild) things to complain about.]

Tho...where do you live again?

[bestestfurrend]

I swear! Pounce does too!

[She wants to try those juice boxes, dammit! She'll even do her best to try and make sure Pounce keeps her end of the bargain.]

I've just moved to a new hive in Hel with Equius! It's the first of them, it's hard to miss.

[biifurcatiion]

Ok but do I have to actually thee Equiuth if I come, becauthe if he'th there you're going to have to meet me thomewhere elthe.

[bestestfurrend]

Nuh uh, he'll be down in his basement working! He doesn't come up very often unless I drag him out.

[biifurcatiion]

Ok, becauthe I'm not thharing juice with him. Jutht thaying, it'th not worth it. Tho ath long ath we're clear on that, I'll be there in- twenty minuteth?

[bestestfurrend]

Okay, I know! He only drinks milk anyway.

Twenty minutes, then! Twenty-two minutes is also acceptable if you like!

[biifurcatiion]

[Just for that, he will show up in twenty-two minutes. But not empty handed. Maybe it's slightly overboard, but he has definitely, at some point, collected a healthy supply of literally every kind of juice box imaginable, to the actual boxes in their infinite varieties to the weird pouch things with pictures of surfing humans.

Unfortunately, his hands are so full that he has to kick the door instead of knocking, like an obnoxious tool]

Hey, NP! Open up before I drop all of thith thtuff and you don't get any!

[bestestfurrend]

[Nepeta runs quickly to the door as soon as she hears the kicking, not wanting Equius to come out of his basement to find out what the racket is all about. She doesn't get there first, however. No, it's Aurthour who opens the door with a polite bow, silently offering to help Sollux with some of his load.]

Sollux, Sollux, hi!

[biifurcatiion]

[This is...totally fucking freaky. Sollux isn't really sure he wants his lusus back, the poor dumb bastard, but he tries to keep his interactions with highbloods down to the bare minimum, and getting confronted by a blueblood lusus is both 1) disconcerting, and 2) actually kind of unwelcome, no matter how polite he might be about it.]

I didn't realize you were tho excited about juice.

[bestestfurrend]

Not just about the juice! It's good to see you too!

[Aurthour has no intention of interfering, at least, turning to go back to the kitchen once he's ascertained Sollux doesn't seem to want help. Of course, that clears the path for a certain giant cat to come rushing right at him.]

Pounce, no! No licking, we purromised!

[biifurcatiion]

[HE KNEW THAT PROMISE WAS UNLIKELY TO BE MET. HE KNEW.]

Oh my god, doethn't anybody keep their luthuth on a leathh, or thomething?! No juice for you. [To pounce, who he's trying to fend off...with his elbows, while balancing the juice.]

[bestestfurrend]

[Well, at least Nepeta manages to jump on her in time to prevent actual licking from happening!]

She's just glad to see you! She gets excited when she gets to meet my friends. Shh, Pounce, let Sollux come in, he can't do that with you climbing all over him.

[biifurcatiion]

[Thank you Nepeta you are a queen among trolls.]

It'th not like I didn't have a luthuth of my own to climb all over me, anyway. [But just to be sure he's keeping a respectful distance with his juice.] How do you want to do thith? Are we giving her juice too?

[bestestfurrend]

Let's take them all to the nourishment block! And we'll try some out! She can have some too if she wants, but I don't know if she'll like it.

[Judging by how excited Pounce seems, though, they'll never have any peace if they don't give her some.]

[biifurcatiion]

It'th your problem no matter what, if it maketh her thtupid or jutht hyper ath ballth.

[Sollux tries to keep as much distance between himself and the mad lusus as possible, and holds the juice up preposterously high, just in case she decides to go for it.]

[bestestfurrend]

It won't make her stupid!

[She is insulted at the mere thought! ...her turning hyper is not something she'll deny, however. Pounce, like Nepeta herself, could turn hyperactive at a glance.

A gentle hand on the top of Pounce's head keeps her close to Nepeta, however, and Sollux can make his way to the kitchen without being jumped on again. The purr that comes from the cat sounds rather like laughter, though. Holding something out of her reach has never stopped her from getting it before!]